Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI

Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience

Redwood City, CA (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$220k-$260kDetected 42 days ago
Distributed SystemsGitAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsCircleCISite Reliability EngineeringLLMsAgentic AIA/B TestingResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • You'll shape our AI-native development environment, modernize CI/CD platforms (CircleCI, Buildkite, GitHub Actions), integrate AI SRE tooling, and mentor engineers across levels.
  • Your work will directly accelerate developer velocity, reliability, and product quality across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Set the strategy and architecture for our local development environment, build systems, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-assisted coding workflows (Claude Code, Claude MD-in-repo workflows)
  • End-to-end ownership of our release pipeline and lead the transition from scheduled releases to a robust, automated continuous deployment framework
  • Ship a clear multi-quarter DevEx roadmap and lead cross-team adoption
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to design and deliver improvements to dev-infra, release processes, and internal tooling.
  • serve as a thought partner for org-wide developer experience strategy.
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including deep ownership of build, test, or CI/CD systems

Nice to have

  • As a member of our team, you'll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success.
  • All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.
  • Please contact us to request accommodation.

Skills

  • Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
  • CI/CD systems: CircleCI, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Helm
  • Build systems like Poetry, pip, uv
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale developer workflows and improving engineering best practices.
  • Nice to Have
  • Experience in hyper-growth startup environments or scaling engineering orgs.
  • Experience with AI development workflows, AI-assisted code generation, or SRE automation or strong excitement to learn.
  • Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.
  • Salary range(s) for this role
  • $220,000 - $260,000 USD
  • Be Your Best at Snorkel
  • Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.

Compensation

  • Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Benefits

  • Own the CI health and experience, maintain metrics to track CI health, developer productivity, effective usage of AI and build roadmap to constantly improve
  • Proactively identify bottlenecks and drive large-scale DX initiatives - e.g., cutting flaky tests, improving PR iteration speed, increasing automated test coverage, and reducing infra cost

Company info

  • We are hiring a senior engineer to join our Developer Experience (DevEx) team - a small, high-impact group responsible for elevating how engineering builds, tests, ships, and collaborates.
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